Posted by SLS on January 10, 2009, at 17:54:25
In reply to Re: pediatric antidepressant placebo response, posted by Larry Hoover on January 10, 2009, at 16:30:39
> Editorial about the article, from same issue:
>
> http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/166/1/1Charles Nemeroff, MD makes a valuable point when evaluating "placebo" responses. Treatment with placebo is not the same as "no treatment". Subjects are given supportive services and often find relief in knowing that they will be effectively treated. There are numerous other factors to be found in the handling of the subject that might effectively treat the psychological phenomena that are present.
I guess I could write a whole lot more about the phenomenology and significance of the placebo response (and I have), but it seems like too large a project for me to take on right now.
- Scott
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